Overriding Volunteer Lyrics by Finley Quaye

Overriding Volunteer Lyrics

    While bodies burn, the children learn
    How the money's earned, with growing concern
    In the gallery, three distinguished strangers
    Who had found there way home.......
    Ricochet and muzzle flash
    Superfluous, luxurious,
    Commodities, communities
    Democracies, security
    They don't want your money
    Overriding volunteer
    They don't think you're funny at all.
    Overriding volunteer
    Lindesfarne and Banochburn
    Inadequacy, inaccuracies
    Heritage, more discoveries
    While the fishermen sail the seas
    Chemicals, minerals, culture and war,
    Is that all this place is good for
    Hundreds of years, unsettled scores
    Rivalry and bribery
    They don't want your money
    Overriding volunteer
    They don't think you're funny at all.
    Overriding volunteer
    Initiative on the killing floor
    Each man is there for the next man
    That's the horror and the terror of war
    And your overriding volunteer
    Inter-unit strife, think about your wife
    Another mission rehearsal, so you know the procedure.
    The rotor wash, N.C.O., incursion and extraction.
    Numbing the population, evacuees, contingency..
    They don't want your money
    Overriding volunteer
    They don't think you're funny at all.
    Overriding volunteer
    Movie reels on a photo slide
    In a mountainside where the warlords hide
    Send them to the sky
    Send them to the sea
    Spread them all over the land
    The slaves and the gold and the ivory
    The artist cry, as the good ones die
    Charities and the refugees
    The monetary man with a momentary plan
    They don't want your money
    Overriding volunteer
    They don't think you're funny at all.
    Overriding volunteer

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